2 Kings 18:29
in 2 Kings 18This is what the king says: Do not let Hezekiah deceive you; he cannot deliver you from my hand.
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ASV
Thus saith the king, Let not Hezekiah deceive you; for he will not be able to deliver you out of his hand:
KJV
Thus saith the king, Let not Hezekiah deceive you: for he shall not be able to deliver you out of his hand:
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This verse in 2 Kings 18
Commentary
5 notes on this verseA commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
There were two grounds, and two only, on which Hezekiah could rest his refusal to surrender, (1) ability to resist by his own natural military strength and that of his allies; and (2) expectation based upon the language of Isaiah Isa 30:31; Isa 31:4-9, of supernatural assistance from Yahweh. The Rab-shakeh argues that both grounds of confidence are equally fallacious.
This site's exposition
cried with a loud voice
on 2 Kings 18:28-32
Rab-shakeh abandons diplomacy and shouts in the Jews' own language over the officials' heads, straight to the men on the wall, urging them to make an agreement, a pledge of surrender, and trade the siege for an ordinary harvest, his own vine, his own fig tree, his own cistern. The offer is a lie dressed as mercy: verse 32 admits the real plan is deportation, a land like your own land, the standard Assyrian policy of resettlement already carried out on Israel in verse 11. Let not Hezekiah deceive you and hearken not unto Hezekiah frame the whole appeal as a contest for the people's loyalty, king against invader, fought in words before either army moves.
The record, by era
The Church Fathers1 voice
As I have already said, Sennacherib is a type of the devil, and this hypothesis is perfectly confirmed by the words that in this passage the Rabshakeh boastfully speaks against God when he makes false promises to the people, trying to take away from [God] …
The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices
), " Let not Hezekiah deceive you into your own ruin, for he shall not be able to deliver you; you must either bend or break." It were well if sinners would submit to the force of this argument, in making their peace with God--That it is therefore our wisdom to yield to him, because it is in vain to contend with him: what confidence is that which those trust in who stand it out against him?
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His great piety, which was the more wonderful because his father was very wicked and vile, one of the worst of the kings, yet he was one of the best, which may intimate to us that what good there is in any is not of nature, but of grace, free grace, sovereign grace, which, contrary to nature, grafts into the good olive that which was wild by nature ( Rom. xi.
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The words behind it
13 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| כֹּ֚ה | koh | thus | H3541 → | 577 times |
| אָמַ֣ר | ʾamar | he says | H559 → | 5305 times |
| הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ | hamelekh | the king | H4428 → | 2525 times |
| אַל־ | ʾal- | may not | H408 → | 724 times |
| יַשִּׁ֥יא | yashi' | he deceive | H5377 → | |
| לָכֶ֖ם | lakhem | <to> you | ||
| חִזְקִיָּ֑הוּ | chizkiyahu | Hezekiah | H2396 → | 127 times |
| כִּי־ | ki- | for | H3588 → | 4482 times |
| לֹ֣א | lo' | not | H3808 → | 5168 times |
| יוּכַ֔ל | yukhal | he will be able | H3201 → | 194 times |
| לְהַצִּ֥יל | lehatzil | to deliver | H5337 → | 212 times |
| אֶתְכֶ֖ם | ʾetkhem | <obj.> you | H853 → | 10935 times |
| מִיָּדֽוֹ׃ | miyado | from hand his | H3027 → | 1618 times |
כֹּ֚הthus
kohH3541 →577 times
אָמַ֣רhe says
ʾamarH559 →5305 times
הַמֶּ֔לֶךְthe king
hamelekhH4428 →2525 times
אַל־may not
ʾal-H408 →724 times
יַשִּׁ֥יאhe deceive
yashi'H5377 →
לָכֶ֖ם<to> you
lakhem
חִזְקִיָּ֑הוּHezekiah
chizkiyahuH2396 →127 times
כִּי־for
ki-H3588 →4482 times
לֹ֣אnot
lo'H3808 →5168 times
יוּכַ֔לhe will be able
yukhalH3201 →194 times
לְהַצִּ֥ילto deliver
lehatzilH5337 →212 times
אֶתְכֶ֖ם<obj.> you
ʾetkhemH853 →10935 times
מִיָּדֽוֹ׃from hand his
miyadoH3027 →1618 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Daniel 6:16So the king gave the order, and they brought Daniel and threw him into the den of lions. The king said to Daniel, “May your God, whom you serve continually, deliver you!”
it leads to
- Psalms 37:39–40
The salvation of the righteous is from the LORD; He is their stronghold in time of trouble.
- Job 5:19
He will rescue you from six calamities; no harm will touch you in seven.
- Psalms 91:14–16
“Because he loves Me, I will deliver him; because he knows My name, I will protect him.
- Psalms 37:39–40
Through
2 Thessalonians 2:8And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus will slay with the breath of His mouth and annihilate by the majesty of His arrival.
it leads to
- Revelation 19:20–21
But the beast was captured along with the false prophet, who on its behalf had performed signs deceiving those who had the mark of the beast and worshiped its image. Both the beast and…
- 2 Thessalonians 2:3
Let no one deceive you in any way, for it will not come until the rebellion occurs and the man of lawlessness—the son of destruction—is revealed.
- Isaiah 11:4
but with righteousness He will judge the poor, and with equity He will decide for the lowly of the earth. He will strike the earth with the rod of His mouth and slay the…
- Revelation 20:10
And the devil who had deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and sulfur, into which the beast and the false prophet had already been thrown. There they will be tormented day…
- Revelation 19:15
And from His mouth proceeds a sharp sword with which to strike down the nations, and He will rule them with an iron scepter. He treads the winepress of the fury of the wrath…
- Revelation 19:20–21
Where this verse is studied
About 2 Kings
Who and where
1 name in this verse with a page on the site.
This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Ephrem the Syrian, ON THE SECOND BOOK OF KINGS 18:19; Keil, The Books of the Kings and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.